We get quite a few cameos from MMA fighters, both current and now retired.
The few hundred bucks he gets from losing the minor fights is never going to be enough to pay for the music program, so he needs some specialist training to turn him if not into a winner, then at least an entertaining loser. Marty Streb dresses him as some sort of Nordic invader – which would be fine if he did not then get knocked out with the very first punch! However, his potential is spotted and his training starts in earnest. Voss’s first fight and indeed, the build-up does not go well. His life is just bumping comfortably along the bottom, and if he could just attract Miss Flores, he would be totally happy with his lot. The school Voss teaches in looks wonderfully dilapidated, the teaching staff all equally ill motivated and the kids all just there because they have nowhere else to be. Compared to the real life MMA stars, he looks podgy and unfit, but like a powerful sportsman gone slightly to seed.
He then packed it all in for a life on the boards, living with his brother comedian Gary Valentine – who also plays his brother in the film, and they have both made a successful career as stand-up comedians and comedy actors. James was a college sports major, playing American football while studying Sports Management. To a certain extent, this is art imitating life. Voss realizes that his college wrestling skills might get him into the ring and even if he loses, the money will still be good. Voss takes on an after school role leading a US Citizenship class and this introduces him to ex-cage fighter Niko (Bas Rutten). Yes, you can do a few private classes, but they need tens of thousands of dollars. The opportunities for a teacher to earn extra money are a little limited. When the music programme is threatened by budget cuts, Voss finds himself agreeing to lead fundraising to save the department and also Streb’s job. Amazingly enough, this does not make him unpopular with the other teachers, and he has a particular friendship with aging music teacher Marty Streb (Henry Winkler), who confides he and his partner are expecting a baby late in their lives. Habitually late, he has no interest in his students whatsoever, saving his energy for chasing school nurse Bella Flores (Salma Hayek) and avoiding anything even closely resembling work. Kevin James – of The King of Queens fame, plays Scott Voss, an unmotivated biology teacher in a Boston high school.
Here comes the boom fighters movie#
There must be a few issues with their image just now, as this film does feel a little bit like a publicity movie for the sport at times. While wrestling is something you can take your granny to, MMA is considerably harder, with much more contact, blood and danger of real injury. In the ‘States, they made this WWE and then eventually combined this with kick boxing and call it Mixed Martial Arts, or cage fighting to the rest of us. Why is it the Americans have to do everything to excess? In the UK we had Saturday afternoon wrestling, with Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy throwing each other around the ring.
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